Push-pull type paper sheet ejection



Nov. 13, 1934. F. E. PFEIFFER 5 PUSH-PULL TYPE PAPER SHEET EJECTION Filed Oct. 20. 1935 5 Sheets-Sheet l J-lwmwl/ FRANK E. PFEIFFER,

F. E. PFEIFFER PUSH-PULL TYPE PAPER SHEET EJECTION Now 13, 1934.

Filed Oct. 20, 1955 5 Sheets-Sheet 2 I Jwvml FRANK E. FFEIFFER, .B

Nov. 13, 1934.

F. E. PFEIFFER PUSH-PULL TYPE PAPER SHEET EJECTION Filed 001;. 20. 1935 5 Sheets-Sheet 5 Nov. 13, 1934.

F. E. PFEIFFER PUSH-PULL TYPE PAPER SHEET EJECTION Filed Oct.

5 Sheets-Sheet 5 Jwm FRANK E'PFEIFFER,

Patented Nov. 13, 1934 PUSH-PULL TYPE PAPER SHEET EJEOTION Frank E. Pfeifier, Dayton, Ohio, assignor to The Egry Register Company, Dayton, Ohio, a corporation of Ohio Application October 20, 1933, Serial No. 694,429

18 Claims. 282'13) This invention relates to improvements in autographic registers, and has for its object to provide a writing table having at one end a notch and a retractable tear-off plate adapted to cover said notch.

It is an object of this invention to provide, in connection with an autographic register writing table, means for causing a plurality of superimposed strips to engage the table for aligning l0- and stopping purposes, and a cut-off plate movably mounted on one end of the table for severing the strips of paper along perforations, and adapted to be retracted so that the strips of paper may be gripped for pulling purposes.

It is also an object of this invention to provide, in connection with an autographic register, a table having a slot adjacent one end and a notch in the other end, with means for aligning the strips of paper as they pass through the slot, and a tear-off plate mounted on the table over the notch and so connected to the aligning means that the two are moved together.

These and other advantages will appear from the following description taken in connection with the drawings.

Referring to the drawings:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of an autographic register according to the present invention.

Figure 2 is a top plan view of the register with 30161'18' covers removed and showing one cover in section.

Figure 3 is a View showing the inside of the writing table with the adjacent part of the autographic register casing in section.

Figure 4 is a section on the line 4-4 of Figure 1.

Figure 5 is a view showing the rear end of the writing table and the parts of the casing associated therewith, together with a sheet of paper supported on top of the table.

Figure 6 is a section on the line 66 of Figure 1.

The autographic register has the usual casing composed of sides 1, a front end 2, a rear end 3 and a bottom 4. On the bottom and spaced from V .45 the sides are two standards 5, between which a stack of paper is adapted to be placed. On top of the casing is a table 6, which has at its front end at each side, a bracket '7 attached to the side of the casing by means of a bolt 8. The front 5018116. of the table is supported on the top of the casing and also by means of a tie rod 9 connecting the sides of the casing.

The table has therein, somewhat remote from the front end of the casing, a slot' 10, through which strips of paper pass onto and along the table. For the purpose of holding the strips of paper in the proper position on top of the table after they have passed through the slot thereis provideda presser plate 11, attached to the table in any suitable manner, as by rivets. This plate extends rearwardly entirelyacross the slot. The table, at the rear edge of the slot, is provided with a sharp edge 12 for engaging the strips of paper along creases or cross perforations for aligning and stopping purposes.

Supported beneath the table and to the rear of the slot is an aligning plate 13, which has-extending rearwardly from the center thereof an arm 14. The plate and the armare provided with slots 15 to receive guide and supporting pins 16 located in the table and projecting through the slots. For the purpose of limiting the rearward movement of the aligning plate a pin 17 is located on theunder side of the table and adapted to engage one side of the aligning plate, as clearly shown in Figure 3. The aligning plate is held normally in its rearward. position by means of a spring 18, connected at one end to a .pin 19 on the aligning plate. and at the other end to a pin 20 on the bottom of the table. This spring not only tends to hold the aligning plate in the rear- Ward position but in position so that the strips of paper passing through the slot 10 are held against thesharp edge 12 of the table.

Oneach side of the aligning plate is a downwardly and forwardly extending flange 21. These flanges support between them two rollers, a forward and lower roller 22 and a rearward and upper roller 23. from each other so. that superimposed strips of paper may pass between them and through the slot onto the table. By a forward movement of the aligning plate and the rollers the strips of paper are caused to be less sharply bent at the point where they pass through the slot in the table, and are thereby more easily moved-through the slot and over the table.

The rear end of the table has at each corner a notch 24 and intermediate these corner notches an arcuate notch 25, which serves as a finger notch for gripping the strips of paper. Extending from each corner notch, longitudinal of the table, is a slot 26. Between these two'slots 26 is a plate 27,attached at its'ends by means of rivets 28. This plate is located from the end of the table a distance substantially equal to the. depth of the corner notches. The purpose of this plate is to hold the strips of paper in close assembled relationship with one another on top of the writing table. This plate is spaced from the These rollers are slightly spaced end of the table in order that it will not interfere with the gripping of the strips of paper in the end notch.

There is also provided in the table, between the two slots 26, a pair of holes 29. Adjacent each hole and attached to the under side of the table by means of rivets'31 is a spring 30, which has an arcuate end 32 extending into and through a hole 29 for the purpose of engaging the under side of a strip of paper so there is a yielding grip on the forward ends of the strips of paper.

at right angles to the arm.

Under normal conditions this thumb piece is.

34. Thistear-off plate rests normally immedi-' ately above the rear end of the table and to the rear of the plate 27,, p

The plate 34 is bent downward ,:and' passed through each slot 26, with the ends bent toward each other as indicated'by the numeral 35, re-

duced at 36 and attached by means of rivets 37 to theunderf surface of the ends of the arm 14 adjacent the thumb piece 33. By means of this guard or tear-off plate, thus constructed, the rear end of the table is completely surrounded by a loop-shaped member which is supported by and movable with the aligning plateand its arm 14.

Whenever the thumb piece is pressed forwardly the rollers on the aligning plate are movedforward and at the'same time the guard or tear-off plate 34 is moved forward away from the end of v the table so that the notch 25 is exposed, whereby the advanced ends ofthe strips of paper may be gripped for extracting or moving the paper over the table. Under the operation of the spring the aligning plate and the guard or tear-off plate-34 are in their rearmost positions. vAt this time the stripsof paper are bent'at the edge 12 at an acute.

angle, thereby rendering it" difiicult for the strips of paper to be advanced; 'At, the same time the not'ch'25 at the rear end of the table is covered so that the strips of paper cannot be gripped until the thumb piece is moved forward.

The rear end of the table isprovided with posts 38 adapted to support therear end of a front cover 39, which has at its forward end at each. side, a bracket 40 attached to the side of the cas- 7 ing by means of a bolt 41. In thiszcover'is the usual writing space 42. The rear end of the writprojections 47 adapted to be engaged byhooks 48 on the under side of the rear cover for holding the cover on the casing. This rear cover also has a finger notch 49 cooperating with the notches in the front cover and the table to provide a space 'through which the ends of the strips of'paper may be gripped for moving purposes. The extreme rear edge of i the rear cover is provided with a slot 50, through which torn-off sheets of paper- 3 may be inserted for storage purposes. The rear The rearward end of the arm 14 is provided With' a downwardly extending thumb piece 33 which is cover is locked to the casing by means of a lock 51.

The torn-off sheets of paper are supported in the rear end of the casing by means of an inclined support 52, which has at its front end an upwardly extending wall 53 and a pair of downwardly extending legs 54. At one side of the casing is the usual carbon paper container 55, which has extending longitudinally therethrough a shaft 56, supported at its ends by the ends of Y the a container.

This shaft has thereon a disc 57 adapted to engage one end of a roll of carbon paper 58. This disc is held against the end of the roll of carbon paper by means of a spring 59, one end of which engages the disc while the other end is attached to the shaft by means of a bolt 60. One the side of the casing opposite the carbon paper container is a bar 61 pivoted at one end by means of a pivot 62 to the side of the casing and attached at its other end to the casing by means of a lock member 63. This bar is to hold the free ends of the carbon sheets.

. The strips of paper are fed from a stack 64 in the, forward end of the casing, between the standards 5. These strips of paper are superimposed and provided with cross perforations or creases 65 into-sheets 66. These strips, formed of sheets, are fed through the slot and over the writing table. They strips of paper are advanced over the table until one set ofsheets assumes theposition immediately beneath the hole in the cover,

as shown'inFigure .1. .The carbon sheets are properlyinterleaved between the sheets of writing paper. y

After the desirednotations have been made on the sheets the aligning plate is moved for-' ward byengaging the thumb piece on the end of the arm 14. This forward movement of the aligning plate also causes a forward movement of the rollers 22 and 23 and also of the cut-off plate located on the rear end of the table. The

advanced ends of the sheets may be readily gripped by the thumb and finger and may be readily pulled forward because the strips, at the point where they pass through the slot in the table, do not have'such a sharp,angular turn and also readily pass over the sharp edge 12.

After the strips have been slightly advanced the thumb piece 33 is released and the spring acts to pull the aligning plate rearwardly, but

this rearward movement of the plate will not.

interfere with the advancement of the strips of paper because no perforations or creases are present to interfere'with the movement of thestripsof paper,'but as'soon as the strips of paper have been advanced so that other creases or cross perforations are brought against the sharp edge 12v strips of paper along cross creases therein toalign;

and stop the strips, means tending to bend the strips against said edge, and means to move said means so that the strips are less bent and may pass along said edge, said last-named means having a tear-off strip attached thereto.

2. In an autographic register, a writing table having adjacent one end an edge to engage superimposed strips of paper along cross creases therein to align and stop the strips and at the other end a notch in which the advanced ends of the strips may be gripped, means tending to hold the strips against said edge, a member around the notched end of the table connected -to' andmovable with said means, and means adjacent the notch for moving said member and said means so that the strips of paper. may be gripped and moved over the table.

3. In an autographic register, a writing table having at one end an aligning edge and at its other end a finger notch, a bar slidably mounted on the table across the notch, and means to hold the strips of paper against the aligning edge to align them, said bar acting as a tear-on blade when over the notch and adapted to be moved from across the notch so that paper on the table may be gripped in the notch and to move said means so the strips can pass over the aligning edge.

4. In an autographic register, a writing table adapted to support a plurality of superimposed strips of paper divided by cross creases into sheets, said table having at one end a notch, means adjacent the other end of the table to engage the strips in the creases to stop the strips, a tear-ofi plate on the notch end of the table over the notch, and means to move the tear-on plate from over the notch and act on the stop means .so that the strips of paper can easily move over the table.

5. In an autographio register, a writing table adapted to support a plurality of superimposed strips of paper divided by cross creases into sheets, said table having at one end a notch, means adjacent the other end of the table to engage the strips in the creases to stop the strips, a tear-off plate on the notch end of the table over the notch, and means adjacent the notch to move the tearoff plate from over the notch and act on the stop means so that the strips of paper can easily move over the table.

6. In an autographic register, a writing table adapted to support a plurality of superimposed strips of paper divided by cross creases into sheets, said table having at one end a notch, means adjacent the other end of the table to engage the strips in the creases to stop the strips, a tear-off plate on the notch end of the table over the notch, and means adjacent the notch and beneath the table to move the tear-01f plate from over the notch and act on the stop means so that the strips of paper can easily move over the table.

7. In an autographic register, a writing table having at one end a notch and adjacent its other end a slot through which strips of paper may pass onto the table, means adjacent the slot to cause the strips moving across the table to stop, a tear-off plate on the notch end of the table over the notch, means to move the tear-off strip from over the notch, and means operated on the movement of the tear-off plate to render the stop means ineffective.

8. In an autographic register, a writing table having at one end a finger notch, a tear-off plate on the table, means tending to hold the plate over the notch, and a paper strip aligning means connected to the tear-off plate.

9. In an autographic register for use with a I plurality of strips of paper, a writing table having table, a. pair of rollers on the plate adjacent the slot, said rollers serving .to guide superimposed strips of paper through the slot onto the table and adapted in cooperation with the table tostop: the movement of the strips onto the table, and

a tear-off plate connected to the stop plate and located on the table over the notch so that when the tear-01f plate is moved the stop plate is other end a slot, a stop plate slidably supported beneath the table, a pair of rollers on .the plate adjacent the slot, an arm on the plate having a thumb piece, means acting on the plate to hold the rollers slightly to the rear of the slot and the thumb piece beneath the notch, and a tear-ofi plate attached to the arm at the thumb 'pieceand extending across the end of the table above the notch and over the strips of paper.

11. In an autographic register for use with a plurality of strips of paper, a writing table having at one end a pair of slots and a notch between the slots and a paper feed slot adjacent the other end, a stop plate slidably supported beneath the table, a pair of rollers on the plate for directing the strips of paper through the feed slot onto the table and for stopping the movement of the strips of paper, an arm on the platehaving a thumb piece thereon, a spring acting on the plate to hold the rollers slightly to the rear of the feed slot and the thumb piece beneath the notch, and a tear-off plate on the paper over the notch, said tear-off plate extending through each of the pair of slots and to the arm to which each end is attached so that a movement of the thumb piece will move the rollers and the tear-off plate.

12. In an autographic register, a table having at one end a finger notch, a plate adjacent the notch and spaced from said end, said plate being adapted to hold strips of paper against the top of the table, a tear-off plate movably mounted on said end of the table over the strips and adapted at one enda finger notch and adjacent itsother end a slot, astop plate supported beneath the in the notch, and a paper strip aligning means connected to the tear-off plate.

13. In an autographic register, a table having at one end a finger notch, a plate adjacent the notch attached at its ends to the top of the table for holding strips of paper against the top of the table, a tear-off plate mounted on the top of the table over the notch, and means beneath the table adjacent the notch to be operated by fingers gripping the paper in the notch to move the tear-off plate away from the notch.

14. In combination, a table having at one end a notch and at its other end a sharp edge over which superimposed cross-creased strips of paper pass from beneath the table to and along the top of the table, means acting on the strips of paper to cause the sharp edge to engage the strips in the creases, a tear-off plate on the table across the notch and on the strips of paper, and means engaged by a finger in the notch to move the plate from the notch and to move the means acting on the strips so that the creases in the strips will pass by the sharp edge.

15. In combination, a table having at one end a notch and at its other end a sharp edge over which superimposed cross-creased strips of paper pass from beneath the table to and along the top of the table, a pair of rollers acting on the strips means engageableby a finger in the notch to move the plate from the notch and to move the means acting on the strips so that the creases in the strips will pass by the-sharp edge.

16. In combination, a table having at one end a notch and at its other end a sharp edge over which superimposed cross-creased strips of paper {pass from beneath the table to and along the top of the table, a pair of rollers acting on the strips of paper to cause the sharp edge to engage the strips in the creases, a tear-01f plate on the table across the notch and the strips of paper, and {means engageable by a finger in the notch to move the plate from the notch and to move the means acting on the strips so that the creases in the strips will pass by the sharp edge, said means being a. thumb piece connected to the plate and to the rollers. i

17. In an autographie register having a pm rality of sheets with spaced transverse creases,

means to align said sheets by bending them on the creases, means interconnected with the aligning means to conceal the free ends of the sheets while they are aligned and adapted to be moved so that the free ends of the sheets are, exposed and the sheets may be moved out of the register.

-18.-In an autographio register having a plurality of sheets transversely creased at intervals for aligning purposes, aligning means adapted to" bend the sheets to align them, and an interconnected reciprocating tear-off blade covering the front ends of the sheets when they are aligned and held in alignment and uncovering the front ends of the sheets when the aligning means is released.

- FRANK E. PFEIFFER. 

